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Which is better: to have
Fun with Fungi or to have Idiocy with Ideology, to have Wars because of
Words, to have Tomorrow's Misdeeds out of Yesterday's Miscreeds?Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), British
author. "Culture and the Individual," in Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics
and the Visionary Experience (1931-1963) (ed. by Horowitz and Palmer, 1977).

moksha (noun)

liberation: rescue, redemption, salvation, moksha,
deliverance

Hindus believe that karma
can be counteracted by atonement and rituals, by "working out" through punishment
or reward, and by achieving release (moksha) from samsara through the renunciation
of worldly desires.

Andrew Weil, author of High TimesThis book collects all of [Huxley's] words on
the subject and is a valuable addition to the psychedelic literature.

Terence
McKennaThen I read _The Doors of Perception_
and _Heaven and Hell_, and it just rolled from there. That is what really put
me over.

Timothy
Leary, author of _Politics of Ecstasy_
and _Outside Looking In_Huxley had spent years preparing
himself for the fearful psychedelic voyage,
and he made it without question when it presented itself. . . . He did it, and
then the world will never forget it.

Lester Grinspoon & James Bakalar, author of
_Psychedelic Drugs Reconsidered_This collection supplies a good account, in breath
and depth, of Huxley's views on psychedelic drugs and is and excellent
place to start in exploring the larger implications of Psychedelic drug
research.

Island ViewsThe main writings of Aldous
Huxley about psychedelics and the visionary experience have now been gathered
into a single volume [which] should stand as an unparalleled guide to investigators.

Publisher's WeeklyA controversial, mind-expanding
book that confirms Huxley's position. . .as the father of the modern drug
movement.

San Francisco Examiner-ChronicleThe extraordinary richness with which
Aldous Huxley describes the depth of his research on LSD
and mescaline distinguishes him from thousands of researchers who have experimented
with drugs over the years.

Publisher's WeeklyMoksha is more than a book about psychedelics--although
it may well be the most intelligent, well-rounded one of its kind. It is also
another chance to spend hours in Huxley's fascinating company as he talks about
art, literature, religion, psychology, and ecology. (Los
Angeles Times)

Book DescriptionSelected writings from the
author of _Brave New World_
and _The Doors of Perception_
on the role of psychedelics in society.

Includes letters and lectures
by Huxley never published elsewhere.

In May 1953 Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a
gram of mescaline. The mystical and transcendent experience that followed
set him off on an exploration that was to produce a revolutionary body
of work about the inner reaches of the human mind. Huxley was decades ahead
of his time in his anticipation of the dangers modern culture was creating
through explosive population increase, headlong technological advance,
and militant nationalism, and he saw psychedelics as the greatest means
at our disposal to "remind adults that the real world is very different
from the misshapen universe they have created for themselves by means of
their culture-conditioned prejudices." Much of Huxley's writings
following his 1953 mescaline experiment can be seen as his attempt to reveal
the power of these substances to awaken a sense of the sacred in people
living in a technological society hostile to mystical revelations.

Moksha, a Sanskrit
word meaning "liberation," is a collection of the prophetic and visionary
writings of Aldous Huxley. It includes selections from his acclaimed novels
_Brave New World_ and _Island_, both of which envision societies centered
around the use of psychedelics as stabilizing forces, as well as pieces
from _The Doors of Perception_ and _Heaven and Hell_, his famous works
on consciousness expansion.

About the AuthorMichael Horowitz and Cynthia
Palmer are the directors of the Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library in San
Francisco, the only library in the world exclusively devoted to the literature
of mind-altering drugs. Michael Horowitz was Timothy Leary's archivist
and is coauthor of _The High Times Encyclopedia of Recreational Drugs_.
Palmer and Horowitz live in northern California.

In Hinduism and Jainism, moksha (Sanskrit: liberation)
or mukti (Sanskrit: release) refers to liberation from the cycle of death and
rebirth.

Beliefs as to how moksha may be achieved differ considerably
from tradition to tradition. Overall, three distinct approaches or margas (Sanskrit:
paths) are recognized:

1. Karma Marga ("the path of action"): This
path draws its inspiration from the Vedas
and the teachings of Brahmans. It does not require one to pay visit to a temple
or shrine or anything of the sort. All that is required is behaviour that
results in the resolution of one's karma.

2. Jnana Marga ("the path of knowledge"):
intense meditation and self-reflection. This path draws its inspiration from
the Upanishads and the gurus that teach them.

3. Bhakti Marga ("the path of devotion"):
this breed is more popular than the difficult second path. It is the identification
of a worshipper with a particular god. In effect, it is the total devotion
to a single god, usually Rama or Krishna. The first great text of "devotionalism"
is the Bhagavad Gita ("The Song of God"). Krishna appears in this
text and says: "only with love can you come to me".